William Russell — Motography’s Gallery of Picture Players (1912) 🇺🇸

William Russell, being a New Yorker born and bred, slights his “r’s,” calls purple “poiple,” and doesn’t care who hears him.

Also he considers his town quite the best on the map — which is all very well — and is interested in football because he made the Fordam College eleven when he went to school there, not so very long ago.

He claims to have been born in the “early eighties” and to always have had an ambition stageward. It was in 1902 he first realized his ambition and then followed successive appearances with May Tully, David Higgins, John Stoddard, Catherine Countiss, Chauncey Olcott and Ezra Kendall.

He also played in stock in Seattle, Wash., and Lancaster, Pa. So he knew perfectly what he was doing when in 1908 he gave up legitimate stage work for films. Some of his work with Thanhouser has been “The Little Girl Next Door,” “Merchant of Venice,” “Through the Flames,” and “Jess.”

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Collection: Motography Magazine, November 1912